Top Stories
Analog: Avoid Or Embrace?
Data converters are required whenever you move between the analog and digital domains, and they present both challenges and opportunities.
Priorities Shift In IC Design
AI, edge applications are driving design teams to find new ways to achieve the best performance per watt.
Moore’s Law, Supply Chains And Security
Big changes ahead, from design to deployment.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling points to an explosion of new ways to improve performance with less power, in More Knobs, Fewer Markers.
Mentor’s Madhur Bhargava finds a better way to represent low-power objects created in UPF for fast and reliable low power coverage infrastructures, in Three Steps To Faster Low Power Coverage Using UPF 3.0 Information Models.
Synopsys’ Himanshu Bhatt and Paras Mal Jain explain how to achieve some powerful debug and coverage mechanisms for CDC jitter using the best of both static verification and simulation, in Dynamic CDC Jitter For Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) Signoff.
Fraunhofer EAS’ Roland Jancke shows how digital twins go beyond classic system modeling approaches by providing a longer lifetime and greater efficiency, in Digital Twins In Automotive.
Rambus’ Suresh Andani lays out the key aspects of building a PCIe 5 implementation that can meet the rapidly growing demands of cloud computing and AI/ML applications, in Accelerating AI And ML Applications With PCIe 5.
ANSYS’ Craig Hillman demonstrates an important technique for capturing an electronic component’s response to simulated thermal, thermo-mechanical and mechanical loads, in Using Digital Image Correlation To Determine BGA Warpage.
Adesto’s Joao Marques highlights ADC architecture considerations for applications requiring fast sampling rates, in SAR ADCs For Machine-To-Machine Connections.
Cadence’s Madhavi Rao reminds us of some fundamental differences between computers and the human brain, in Brains And Computers At The VLSI Design Conference.
Arm’s Chet Babla reports that the automotive focus at CES has shifted from autonomy to the digital cockpit, driving experience, and the latest ADAS, in CES 2020 Highlights New Automotive Tech.
